NewsWrap for the week ending June 13, 2015
SUMMARY
Against the Grain - Germany’s upper house of parliament defies Chancellor Angela Merkel by passing a marriage and adoptions equality resolution …
Ireland Reverberates - civil unions bills for same-gender couples advance in Italy and Greece …
Safe Zone - an Arkansas judge upholds the validity of the marriages of some 500 gay and lesbian couples who wed before a federal court ruling overturning the state’s ban was appealed …
Last Chapter of Anita - Florida lawmakers finally repeal a decades-old ban on fostering and adoption by lesbians and gay men …
Declare Yourself - Colombia no longer requires trans people to undergo invasive medical exams before changing their gender on official documents …
Marching On - Pride parades in Nicosia -- without disruption this year -- and in Tel Aviv and Sao Paulo …
Spells and Misspells - Dumbledore and Gandalf get fantasy-married in Topeka, Kansas across the street from the hideously homophobic Westboro Baptist Church, whose cult members are still reeling from accidentally damning the Ivory Coast in a protest of Ireland’s marriage equality landslide …
Labels: Arkansas, bisexual, civil unions, Colombia, Florida, gay, Germany, Greece, homophobia, homosexuality, human rights, Italy, lesbian, LGBT, marriage equality, Pride, transgender, transsexual
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